Citation

Young SD, Wang W, Chakravarthy B. JAMA Surg. 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, American Medical Association)

DOI

10.1001/jamasurg.2019.1167

PMID

31116356

Abstract

Every day, more than 100 deaths and 2.5 million emergency department visits result from motor vehicle crashes, making motor vehicle crashes a leading cause of death in the United States.1,2 Reducing ambulance and emergency department treatment response time for crash patients could markedly save lives.3 We evaluated whether data from the crowdsourced traffic application Waze (Google) might be used to detect motor vehicle crashes faster than current reporting methods ...

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